The Secret

Ally T.
3/23/09
The Secret

It was my best friend’s deepest, darkest secret and it would be a hard one to keep.
He came to me crying, I’ve known Rocky for 7 years, and I have never seen him cry, ever.
His mother was friends with my mother, and when we first met we had so much in common, we’ve been best friends ever since. I always got to him first than anybody, no matter what the issue is.
He told me he had something big to tell me, something that would change the way I looked at him.
“You’re my best friend Ally, I have to tell you, your the only person I could ever tell”
I was scared, I didn’t know what he was about to tell me.

He told me to sit down because what I was about to hear might ruin our friendship.
“Rocky, nothing can make me not want to be your friend”.
He grabbed my hand and broke down to tears, made me pinky promise that I would never tell anyone. “You’re the only one who could know Ally”.
At this point Rocky was starting to scare me, I had no idea what he was about to tell me.

He asked me if I had remembered that girl he was seeing, Shannon. I told him he never really explained her to me, so he began.

*From Rocky’s point of view*

She is 17, and goes to the same school as us, I never noticed her before. Shannon had just broken up with her boyfriend when I started seeing her, She told me that she was done with him. I took her out on a date, after the first time we hung out I felt really close to her, like I was suppose to be with her. When I took her home that night, I walked her to her front steps, and noticed that their was a car parked across the street with all the lights off, I figured it belonged to her parents. I kissed her goodnight and she said she would call me later.

When I was driving home I felt like someone was watching me, possibly even following me. I pulled into my garage and walked to the basement. My phone was already ringing, and it was Shannon. I answered and said, “that was fast”. No one answered on the other line, all I heard was panting. I hung up, and my phone rang again, this time it was private. I answered and a guy said he knew what I was doing.

I figured it was a kid playing a prank on me, so I really didn’t care about it.
“My phone was ringing all night Ally”
I never answered the calls because they were all private, when I woke up in the morning I had 47 new voice messages. When I went to my car there was a note stuck behind the wipers, it said “Trust me pal, leave her alone”. I threw the note away and went to pick up Shannon from her house, she said that someone strange was calling her all night. I told her about my experience, and we decided that it was a friend of ours playing a joke. When we got to school I walked her to her locker, when she opened it a dozen roses were wrapped on one of her shelves.
She thought it they were from me, but I never told her that I never put them there.

We started getting real close, she was with me everyday, we never made it official but we were getting there. About a month passed and she began telling me about her ex-boyfriend. His name was Billy Bob and he was her first real love. He was sweet in the beginning and turned out to be abusive towards the end. She decided to end it because she was tired of covering up the bruises he left her. She said he forced her to have sex with him the night they broke up, she told her parents but they could do nothing about it.

“It was hard for him to leave me alone” Shannon
Once I found out that Billy didn’t go to our school I figured there was no way he could find out about me and her. She was safe, and we were happy. One night I decided to crash at her place, we watched a movie and went to sleep. In the middle of the night she would scream, she kept screaming “NO!”. When she woke up in the morning I told asked her if she had a nightmare, and she told me she couldn’t remember.

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She kept calling me, she was blowing up my phone. Shannon always wanted to be around me or
know what I was doing. I decided that she was to jealous of anyone I hung out with, and I told her we needed some time. She threw a fit, and then stopped calling. She never answered any of my calls, none of my texts, and never talked to me at school. A part of me was happy but the other part really missed her.

She texted me one night and asked for me to come over, I was surprised she wanted to see me and in a heartbeat I was ringing her doorbell. It was open, so I went straight upstairs. I brought her favorite movie, Enough with Jennifer Lopez. She had always said she loved that movie because it represented her relantionship with her and Billy, abusive.

I called her name, and she didn’t answer back. I walked all around the house and no one was home, not even her parents. I walked upstairs, and then my phone rang, it was another text message “Come upstairs”. I walked upstairs and all the lights were off, except in one room. I thought she was trying to get romantic I mean we havent been together for more than 3 weeks. I walked to the lit room, and saw her laying on the bed. I walked to her and kissed her forehead, she didn’t even move. I was talking to her, and talking to her but she never said a thing. I touched her and she wasn’t breathing. She had on a tank top and some boy shorts, I looked at her head and she had blood coming out of her hair.

I was freaking out, and didn’t know what to do. Should I call someone, leave her here, or what?

*Back to Rocky & Ally*

“Rocky what did you do?” “Did you tell call someone?”
“I didn’t know what to do, Ally”
“ROCKY!”
“Ally, I feel bad enough what was I suppose to do, everything was leading to me, they would think I killed her, I cant go to jail”.

As much as I still wanted to be Rocky's friend, I just couldn't.
I made him leave, and told him to never call me again, unless he was planning on confessing.
He left and never called, ever.